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Update notifications for Twitter users, the micro-blogging service will now be available in India, thanks to an exclusive deal for a 4-week period with Airtel. For new and existing users, need to link their device to Twitter A/c SMS Signup to 53000 More Information can be found at this site ( http://airtel.in/twitter/ )

A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his Audience. He Said: "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!".The audience was in silence and shock. The speaker added: "And that woman was my mother!" Laughter and Applause!!! A week later, a top manager trained by the Motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke At home. He was a bit foggy after a drink. He said loudly to His wife who was preparing dinner, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my Wife!" The wife went; "ahhhh!" with shock and rage. Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second Half of the joke, the manager finally blurted out "...and I can't remember who she was!" By the time the manager regained his consciousness, he was on a hospital bed nursing burns from boiling water. Moral of the story... Don't Copy if you can't PASTE

Google has relesed a new Programming language called 'noop' which it calls as a testable programming language running on the JVM. Right now its in alpha phase meaning in design and development but its feature set has evinced keen interest due to some of its design goals that include building dependency injection and testing as core features into the language. The features that would not be in the language are 'statics' and 'subclassing'. Here is the wiki link for developers to checkout: http://code.google.com/p/noop/wiki/ForDevelopers

Sitepoint is giving away this free ebook "The Principles of Successful Freelancing" on its site. http://twitaway.sitepoint.com/ All you need to do is to follow them at @sitepointdotcom on twitter. Even if you are already following, you can just allow them to verify and get the ebook. Best, even otherwise just provide your e-mail and they provide you the details to download. So, be fast as this offer doesn't last more than 10 days.

Liferay Portal is the world's leading open source enterprise portal solution using the latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies. 1. Runs on all major application servers and servlet containers, databases, and operating systems, with over 700 deployment combinations 2. JSR-286 Compliant 3. Out-of-the-box usability with over 60 portlets pre-bundled. 4. Built in Content Management System (CMS) and Collaboration Suite 5. Personalized pages for all users 6. Benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite Created for the enterprise, Liferay Portal provides a virtual space where you can centralize, share and collaborate. Check this link to understand why Liferay is a better alternative to Sharepoint .

Twitter is working on bringing location aware feature which will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Check out their Blog announcement for more details: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html An example of Geo aware twitter client is http://www.twibble.de/ Check out this link for more about Geo-twittering http://highearthorbit.com/geo-twittering/

Flickr has now launched twitter integration in its API. Now you can share your Flickr content either via “ upload by email ” or feature existing Flickr content in your Twitter stream. Links: Twitter in the API . http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/06/30/twitter-your-flickr/ http://apiblog.twitter.com/twittering-from-the-flickr-api